Val Demings

Valdez Venita "Val" Demings (12 March 1957-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-FL 10) from 3 January 2017, succeeding Daniel Webster.

Biography
Val Demings was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1957, and she worked as a social worker before joining the Orlando Police Department in 1983; she was Chief of the OPD from 2007 to 2011. In 2012, she narrowly lost election to the US House of Representatives to Daniel Webster, the Republican Party challenger. In 2016, she was elected to the US Congress, and she was a member of the centrist New Democrats.